Group has big hopes for Model T factory

American society as we know it was born a few feet off Woodward Avenue in Highland Park. "The Highland Park plant is where the mainspring of the 20th Century was wound," said Bob Casey, John and Horace Dodge curator of the transportation collection at the Henry Ford museum.

The stories behind the names on your cars

By Larry Printz, Virginian-Pilot Thursday, September 2, 2010 We see their names every day — Ford, Toyota, Dodge, Chevrolet, Chrysler and Honda — but rarely do we think of them as more than chrome letters on your car. They are, though, the names of actual people. Now, meet those whose family name graces your car. David Dunbar Buick: America's oldest surviving marque was founded in 1899 by the man ...